NOUN
- a system of principles for philosophic or scientific investigations; an instrument for acquiring knowledge
How To Use organon In A Sentence
- So Hegel's objection to the organon theory of knowledge presupposes just what this theory calls in question: the possibility of absolute knowledge.
- For Marshall refused to accept George's organon.
- The term (Latin super = above; Greek organon = tool) was coined in 1911 by the great American ant expert and biologist William Morton Wheeler (1865–1937) in an essay titled “The Ant-Colony as an Organism” and is defined as “a collection of single creatures that together possess the functional organization implicit in the formal definition of organism.” SuperCooperators
- Logik und Theologie: Das Organon im arabischen und lateinischen Mittelalter, Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters 84, Leiden: Brill, 99-116. Medieval Theories of Modality
- The determination itself was a public disputation, after which the determiner might wear the bachelor's "cappa" and lecture on the Organon. Life in the Medieval University
- [717] On the word organon, a tool, as used of the Word of God, cf. Nestorius in Marius Merc. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
- Knowledge is here considered from the practical point of view, as a weapon in the struggle for life, as an "organon" which has been continuously in use for generations. Evolution in Modern Thought
- Logik und Theologie: Das Organon im arabischen und lateinischen Mittelalter, Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters 84, Leiden: Brill, 447-467. Medieval Theories of Modality
- From Bacon, argues Nielsen, Durkheim rook over the ambitious project of creating a new organon, a new comprehensive logic, except that for Durkheim that new instrument for understanding reality was sociological.
- He defines logic as being neither a science nor an art, but, in keeping with the traditional meaning of the word organon, just an instrument Giacomo Zabarella